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Provisions

The Small Constitution declared that Poland has a parliamentary system, although it
didn't define Poland as a republic.[1]

Executive powers were held by the Chief of
State. He could name the ministers (with the consent of the
Sejm); he and the ministers were responsible before the
Sejm. The Chief of State (previously the
Provisional Chief of State) no longer had legislative
initiative and could not dismiss the Sejm; all his acts
required the signature of the relevant minister.

The Small Constitution was adopted and published on February 20,
1919, and went into effect a week later, on the February 27, 1919.
It was amended on February 25, 1920, and was supplanted on June 1,
1921, by the March 1921
Constitution.